Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6

2012-10-05 Thread Craig Ringer
On 10/04/2012 02:52 PM, Swayam Prakash Vemuri wrote: Hi We have an application which uses postgresql 7.4.5. Wow. Upgrade time on two levels: - You're running a fossilized point release. The latest 7.4.x is 7.4.30, 25 patch-levels after yours, and came out in October 2010 vs the August 2004

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6

2012-10-05 Thread Thomas Kellerer
John R Pierce, 05.10.2012 08:34: On 10/04/12 11:21 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: You are also moving to a Java version that is soon to be de-supported. Java is supported? Found the link as well: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html Quote: "After February 2013, Oracle

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6

2012-10-05 Thread Thomas Kellerer
John R Pierce, 05.10.2012 08:34: You are also moving to a Java version that is soon to be de-supported. Java is supported? only if you mean the non-stop stream of updates brought on by web exploit exposures. Yes it is. In a similar way as PostgreSQL is "supported". if you're using Java as

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6

2012-10-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/04/12 11:21 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: You are also moving to a Java version that is soon to be de-supported. Java is supported? only if you mean the non-stop stream of updates brought on by web exploit exposures. if you're using Java as a server side application development environm

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6

2012-10-04 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Swayam Prakash Vemuri, 04.10.2012 08:52: Hi We have an application which uses postgresql 7.4.5. Now when we moved to Java 1.6, we are seeing lots of jdbc driver related compilation issues like shown at end of this email. Not only are you using an outdated (and unsupported) PostgreSQL versio

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6

2012-10-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
The appropriate list for this is the jdbc list: pgsql-j...@postgresql.org - Achilleas Mantzios IT DEPT

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6

2012-10-04 Thread Shaun Thomas
On 10/04/2012 10:13 AM, David Fetter wrote: For each database on the 7.4 machine, run the following on the 9.2 machine: pg_dump -h name.of.7.4.machine.com -U postgres -Fc --file=mydb.dump mydb Don't forget the global settings: pg_dumpall -g -U postgres -f globals.sql And you should pro

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6

2012-10-04 Thread David Fetter
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:22:55PM +0530, Swayam Prakash Vemuri wrote: > Hi > > We have an application which uses postgresql 7.4.5. You have a very large problem. The 7.4 series went out of support two years ago at 7.4.30, which means that you have known data corruption and crash bugs, and would